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hello. despite the international criticism there has been of the us withdrawal from afghanistan, no one should question the professionalism or the resolve of the troops staging the evacuation. amid all the obvious dangers and chaos that surrounds the kabul airfield, they have evacuated over 40,000 people so far, 16,000 in the last 2a hours. that is impressive. but the uk defence secretary said today the operation will last only as long, as the americans stick with it. and ahead of tomorrow s g7 virtual summit, borisjohnson has signalled loudly that he would like president biden to extend the august 31st deadline so they can bring more people out. the taliban said today if there was such a delay there would be consequences. this morning, unidentified gunmen opened fire on the security cordon. us, german and afghan soldiers responded. 0ne afghan guard was killed. from kabul, here is secunder kermani. it s crowded, filthy and baking hot. but desperate afghans keep coming t ....
authorization. the moderna vaccine is expected to be fully approved in the fall. experts believe full approval will make a difference in convincing some people to get vaccinated. but perhaps more importantly, it could lead to a surge in vaccine mandates. today, the cdc reported 135,494 new cases of coronavirus today in the united states. across the nation, the weekly average for covid hospitalizations is 11,521. that s an increase of 14.2% from the week before. in six states, alabama, florida, louisiana, mississippi, oregon, and washington, new admissions of patients with coronavirus are currently at their highest level since the start of the pandemic. hospitalization and infection rates for children are also on the rise. nbc news reporting as of wednesday, u.s. hospitals were tending to an average of more than 1,200 children a day, twice the number from the end of july. alabama admitted nearly 260 kids between august 10 and 16, an average of 37 per day and an increase ....
from the week before. in six states, alabama, florida, louisiana, mississippi, oregon and washington, new admissions of patients with coronavirus are currently at their highest levels since the start of the pandemic. hospitalizations and infection rates for children are also on the rise. nbc news reporting, as of wednesday, u.s. hospitals were attending to an average of more than 1200 children a day. twice the number from the end of july. alabama admitted nearly 260 kids between august 10th and 16th. an average of 37 per day. and an increase of more than 300% from the previous week. florida leads the nation entrails children hospitalized with covid-19, averaging 54 new admissions a day over the past week, according to the cdc. of course, florida s republican governor, along with a number of other republican governors across the country, are still banning mask mandates in schools. but parents and school boards, they are fighting back. millions of students in florida, tex ....
flooding the airport. some dying in the process. bill: the pentagon will brief in 60 minutes and well oh he carry that live. it will work to fly out as many as possible over the coming weeks. that is going to be a proper cities. process. the taliban formed a barrier around the airport, not letting anybody inside a certain area of the perimeter. dana: look at this photo here. more than 600 people crammed into an american airplane headed for qatar. they were told the flight crew let them remain on board. bill: the biden administration arguing it was inevitable. republicans calling that argument absurd. it goes to show how full of crap the administration really are. they are trying to play it both ways. they re trying to say we knew they weren t going to be able to protect things and that s why we were getting out. didn t matter if we stayed a month or year. they didn t care and we see the consequences. we didn t blame them we dealt with them and confronted t ....
airport. we ll take stock of what is happening on the ground and we ll answer questions that you submitted online about why this happened and what could happen next. i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. let us begin with a look back at the monumental events that took place in afghanistan today. taliban fighters marched into kabul, intent on taking full control of the capital city. they faced little resistance as they entered the presidential palace. their flag now flies in place of the afghanistan flag. meanwhile the american flag no longer flies over what was the u.s. embassy. diplomats removed it as they and embassy person wrestle removed by helicopter. the president of afghanistan fled the country saying that he did so to spare the city from additional violence. just in time, too. commercial flights out of afghanistan are suspended. that blocks a key escape route for finally citizens still inside the capitol. our mission is to make time for clarity is that cont ....